Franz Liszt
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Liszt achieved success as a concert pianist from an early age, and received lessons from esteemed musicians Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri. He gained further renown for his performances during tours of Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, developing a reputation for technical brilliance as well as physical attractiveness. In a phenomenon dubbed "Lisztomania", he rose to a degree of stardom and popularity among the public not experienced by the virtuosos who preceded him.
During this period and into his later life, Liszt was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner, among others. Liszt coined the terms "transcription" and "paraphrase", and would perform arrangements of his contemporaries' music to popularise it. Alongside Wagner, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School, a progressive group of composers involved in the "War of the Romantics" who developed ideas of programmatic music and harmonic experimentation.
Liszt taught piano performance to hundreds of students throughout his life, many of whom went on to become notable performers. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work that influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century ideas and trends. Among Liszt's musical contributions were the concept of the symphonic poem, innovations in thematic transformation and Impressionism in music, and the invention of the masterclass as a method of teaching performance. In a radical departure from his earlier compositional styles, many of Liszt's later works also feature experiments in atonality, foreshadowing developments in 20th-century classical music. Today he is best known for his original piano works, such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies, ''Années de pèlerinage'', ''Transcendental Études'', "La campanella", and the Piano Sonata in B minor. Provided by Wikipedia
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41by Green, Peter, Knight, Pamela, Withers, Karen, Wells, Ellen, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Morel, Fran�ois, 1926-, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Saint-Sa�ns, Camille, 1835-1921, Muczynski, Robert, 1929-2010Get access
Published 1989
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42by Lee, Karen, Greene, Susan, Drover, Deanna, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Morel, Fran�ois, 1926-, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Chausson, Ernest, 1855-1899, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Get access
Published 1993
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Published 1995
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44by Mews, Douglas, Stanley, John, 1713-1786, Reger, Max, 1873-1916, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Alain, Jehan, 1911-1940, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Buxtehude, Dietrich, 1637-1707, Charpentier, Marc-Antoine, 1643-1704, Le B�gue, Nicolas, 1631-1702, Gigout, Eug�ne, 1844-1925Get access
Published 1978
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45by Martin, Andr�e, Lear, Denise, Way, Brian, Spurrell, Richard, Simmons, Rodney, Knight, Pamela, Yee, Thomas, King, Gordon, Bolling, Claude, Telemann, Georg Philipp, 1681-1767, Wilder, Alec, Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, Chopin, Fr�d�ric, 1810-1849, Morawetz, Oskar, 1917-2007Get access
Published 1992
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46by Baker, M. Christina, Ash, Stephen, Critch, Darrell, Stride, Chad M., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Faur�, Gabriel, 1845-1924, Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847, Diemer, Emma Lou, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886Get access
Published 1995
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47by Pack, Russette, Lee, Karen, Yee, Thomas, Neville, Michelle, Pomeroy, David, Pitcher, Michelle, Bella, Mary, Gabrieli, Giovanni, ca. 1554-1612, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Fillmore, Henry, 1881-1956, Adderly, J., Hubbard, Freddie, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594, Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695Get access
Published 1993
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48by Bella, Mary, Thomson, Heather, Yee, Thomas, Lawlor, Denis, Martin, Ross, Ross, Clark, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963, Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Ginastera, Alberto, 1916-1983, Chopin, Fr�d�ric, 1810-1849, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Somers, Harry, 1925-, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Get access
Published 1994
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49by Anderson, Paula, Barrett, Heather, Colton, Glenn, Dinn, Catherine, Dinn, Mary, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Chopin, Fr�d�ric, 1810-1849, Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963, Coulthard, Jean, 1908-, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741, Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959, Romberg, Bernhard, 1767-1841Get access
Published 1990
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50by Snow, Shannon, Feaver, Paul, Heys, Leslee, Fang, Katie, Stainer, John, 1840-1901, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Carissimi, Giacomo, 1605-1674, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956, Floyd, Carlisle, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886Get access
Published 1997
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51by Ash, Robert, Colton, Glenn, Payne, Mark, Sullivan, Michelle, Hartmann, Andreas, Head, Peggy, Stanley, Marlene, Bannister, Debbie, Martin, Geoffrey, P�pin, Clermont, 1926-2006, Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893, Chopin, Fr�d�ric, 1810-1849, Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903, Strauss, Johann, 1804-1849, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Franck, C�sar, 1822-1890Get access
Published 1989
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52by Pitcher, Michelle, Stride, Chad, Kao, Andy, Lee, Michelle, Stockley, Heather, Critich, Darrell, Kuo, Lynn, Hoekman, Rafael, Humber, Lara, Sullivan, Katie, Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949, Freedman, Harry, 1922-2005, Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963, Floyd, Carlisle, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Martini, Giovanni Battista, 1706-1784, Riisager, Knud�ge, 1897-1974, Peeters, Flor, 1903-1986Get access
Published 1994
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53by Bella, Mary, Thomson, Heather, Pomeroy, David, Yee, Thomas, Woodland, Craig, Ash, Stephen, Clarke, Penni, Sullivan, Katie, King, Gordon: Pitcher, Michelle, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Tosti, F. Paolo (Francesco Paolo), 1846-1916, Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893, Hunsberger, Donald, Cable, Howard, 1920-, Scheidt, Samuel, 1587-1654, Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932, Chopin, Fr�d�ric, 1810-1849, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Galliard, John Ernest, -1747Get access
Published 1994
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